Vedic religion or Vedic Hinduism may refer to: Historical Vedic religion, the religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period Hinduism, which developed out of the merger of Vedic religion with numerous local religious traditions Śrauta, surviving conservative traditions within Hinduism See also Vedas, a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India Vedanta, originally a word used in Hindu philosophy as a synonym for that part of the Veda texts also known as the Upanishads Vedic (disambiguation) History of Hinduism